Welcome
Greetings, giant bag of mostly water.
This is the personal website of Thomas Hurst, a computer programmer from North East England. Please peruse my blog, or take a look at some of the other junk I've made.
Blog
I mean, "blaagh". It's what you say when you read this nonsense.
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: Micro-Optimising in JRuby
Calling Java from JRuby for fun and profit
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: Password Generation in Ruby and Rust
Writing the same small program in two different languages.
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: First Post
Someone... pays me for this, right? Guys?
Projects
Horrifying monstrosities that have somehow escaped the lab.
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: checkrestart
Find processes that need restarting after an upgrade
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: Elite Shield Tester
Find the best-possible Elite Dangerous Shields
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: Compactor
A friendly user interface to Windows 10 filesystem compression
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: tarssh
An async Rust SSH tarpit
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: cw
Count Words - a Rust wc implementation
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: Email Search Command
Email Sucks Completely
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: monotime
Rust-style monotonic clocks in Ruby
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: Comlim
Ruby command runner with resource limits
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: Blooming Ruby
Prototypical BitArray and BloomFilter library
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: pkg-cruft
Help keep FreeBSD tidy
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: Reattempt
A jittery Enumerable retry and backoff library
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: mkpass
Command-line password generation
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: rtss
Relative Timestamps for Stuff
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: bitrw
Bit-level Rust IO
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: LineReader
A fast Rust line reader
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: gcstool / ruby-gcs
Efficient set membership with Golomb Compressed Sets
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: run-one
Friendly wrapper around lockf/flock, unofficial clone of an Ubuntu package
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: FlashFind
High performance multithreaded Find redux
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: FastFind
High performance multithreaded Find
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: 💾 Scandisk
Scan.co.uk Disk Price List
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: 🖩 Bloom Filter Calculator 🖩
It has, like, graphs, and stuff.
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: pqsort
Fast partial quicksort
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: k8temp
Command-line AMD K8 CPU thermal diode reader
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: FreshBSD
BSD Commit Log Search
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: php-serialize
PHP's serialize()/unserialize() in Ruby